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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. State Board of Eduation






2. A syllable ending with a long vowel sound. (labor - freedom)






3. Words that are able to be broken apart by the position of the vowels and consonants in order to pronounce.






4. A spoken or written unit that must have a vowel sound and that may include consonants that precede or follow that vowel. Syllables are units of sound made by one impulse of voice.






5. Federal Law. Nondiscrimination on the basis of handicap in programs receiving federal $$ - Civil Rights Law - to protect people with disabilities by allowing full participation in the workplace.






6. The knowledge of the various sounds in the English language and their correspondence to the letter or letters that represent those sounds.






7. A letter or a group of letters attached to the beginning or ending of a base word or root that creates a derivative with a meaning or grammatical form that is different that the base word or root.






8. Use - pictures - charts - maps - graphs - etc...clear view of teacher - color to highlight important text - ask teacher to provide handouts - illustrate ideas as pictures before writing them down - use multi media






9. Set of principles that dictate the sequence and function of words in a sentence in order to convey meaning - must include grammar - sentence types - and mechanics of language






10. Students proceed trough predictable stages of learning to reading.

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11. Academic Language Therapy Association






12. The writing system of a language. Correct or standardized spelling according to established usage.






13. Multisensory Structured Language






14. Vowel - consonant - e syllable






15. A score to which raw scores are converted by numerical transformation ( conversion of raw scores to percentile ranks or standard scores)






16. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)






17. Statistical measure of the degree of dispersion in distribution of scores. Measures spread of a set of data around mean of the data. The more widely the values are spread out - the larger the standard deviation.






18. A standardized test designed to efficiently measure the amount of knowledge and/or skill a person has acquired - usually as a result of classroom instruction. Such testing produces a statistical profile used as a measurement to evaluate student learn






19. The curved diacritical mark above a vowel in a sound picture or phonic/dictionary symbol notation that indicates a short sound in a closed syllable in which at least one consonant comes after the vowel in the same syllable.






20. Whole language. Founder of Whole language concept






21. The number of words which a reader can translate meaningfully in a given period of time






22. A type of test score that is calculated based on the age that an average person earns a given score within the tested population.






23. A score that describes student performance in terms of the statistical performance of an average student at a given grade level. Ranges from K.0 to 12.9 Are not a dependable representation of progress






24. Response to Intervention - a multi-step or tiered approach to providing services and interventions at increasing intensity to students or an entire class.






25. A morpheme attached to the end of a word that creates a word with a different form or use. Suffixes include inflected forms indicating tense - number - person and comparatives.






26. Feeling through fingertips






27. Vocabulary stressed the events of daily life - Common - everyday - down to earth words - Most are one syllable words






28. Taught visual to auditory - Taught auditory to visual - Students should also master blending of sounds into words and as well segmenting whole words into individual sounds.






29. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development






30. Whole language - Drop Everythng and read - evaluation through miscues - founds of whole language






31. Scientific terminology and often appear in science texts - Greek roots are often combining forms and compound to form words.






32. A way of describing - in standard deviation units - a raw score's distance from its distribution means.






33. Two vowels standing adjacent in the same syllable whose sounds blend smoothly together in one syllable. There are only four diphthongs in English. These are ou/out - ow/cow - oi/oil - oy - boy






34. 1925 - Coined the term "strephosymbolia" which means twisted symbols; Pathologist - neurologist and psychitrist in the US - studied with Dr. Alzheimer in Germany - work influenced by James Hinshelwood






35. Nationally known for research on both the prevention and remediation of reading difficulties in young children as well as work on assessment of phonological awareness and reading






36. State Law. Requires testing - Requires that students enrolled in public schools be tested for dyslexia. - Requires treatment (teaching)






37. Proceeds from the part to the whole.Reading is driven by the text. Emphasizes the written or printed text. Flesch - Gough - LaBerge and Samuels.






38. Individuals with a Disabilities Act






39. Whole body learning






40. Open syllable






41. The ability to translate print to speech with rapidity and automaticity that allows the reader to focus on meaning.






42. listening - remembering - and understanding what someone else says.






43. Comprehensive end-of-year exams - reflecting the specific subject matter outlines in the curriculum.






44. Multisensory Structured Language Education






45. 1930 - Psychologist and teacher in New York; along with Samuel T. Orton at Columbia University - developed a non-traditional approach to teaching written language skills. Trained one teacher at a time. began working with Sally Childs and trained 50 t






46. Construction and Reconstruction - Construct understanding based on analysis and synthesis.

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47. A graphic compilation of the performance of an individual on a series of assessments.






48. Teaching that uses all learning pathways in the brain (VAK-T) simultaneously in order to enhance memory and learning.






49. Selective focus on what is important while screening out distractions.






50. Refers tot he measurement consistency of a test